Residence
17 Aphrasia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 200290
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
An unusual and interesting Spanish Mission house built in the 1920s. It is architecturally significant locally as a fine and intact surviving example of the Spanish Mission style. It is historically significant locally as an embodiment of a particular way of life in Newtown between the wars and perhaps of the aspirations of its owner. Also probably as an early and pioneering example of this style here.
INTACTNESS: Apparently, excellent. The porch may have been infilled to form the right projecting bay.
CONDITIONS AND THREATS. Excellent. None
REFERENCES:
City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks - 192?, 1927-28, 1937-38
Sands & McDougall Directory of Victoria - 1946, 1956, 1961, 1970
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A double fronted Spanish Mission influenced rendered brick house, with a hipped roof clad with Cordoba terracotta tiles. The right bay is set forward with broad ached windows. The left window has louvred shutters, which may be original. At right is a splendid broad arched portecochere. There is no decoration at all (obscured).
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: No 16 (ref: 18) has a similar plan, form and date to no 15 (ref: 16), but a different architectural style. If the house was built in the 1920's then it could be a particularly early example of this style if Geelong.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: CGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: C
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MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022Victorian Heritage Register H1645
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0427
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